Electrify Armament | Elden Ring Wiki

"If it is for the sake of preserving Ashina, I will seize any manner of heretical strength, I will endure any burden."

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The absolute Abductor Virgin destroyer. Put this on claw or fist weapon then 2H it and it doesn't matter if its upgraded or what your stats are, you'll stance break that POS in a couple taps of L1

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coolest looking buff animation and it's unusable on most non whetbladed weapons because they already have elemental damage or can't be infused regardless, amazing

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Use the erdtree seal every time. Other comments below mine have explained why.

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If you haven't yet:
Use cragblade set to sac/faith on the star fist after buffing w/ golden bow AND flame, grant me ... even as a sh***y player it absolutely melts bosses

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gonna use this with 2h bloodhounds fang cuz staves are big and clunky and bloodflame requires 3 arcane point dump

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Me using this and dragonbolt blessing with an uchigatana: "Finally, the lightning of Tomoe."

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What is the FTH softcap for this one?

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So I've been doing an NG++ playthrough with a Claw build that utilizes this as the main DPS buff (alongside Golden Vow). Since this buffs both claws in hand, the lightning damage numbers are effectively doubled every hit - this absolutely destroys enemies weak to lightning.

I did some testing with all the upgraded catalysts I have in my save file, and with 80 Faith, I got these numbers using the below catalysts:

+10 Erdtree Seal ---> +265 lightning damage
+25 Godslayer's Seal --> +247 lightning damage
+25 Gravel Stone Seal --> +239 lightning damage
+25 Giant's Seal --> +230 lightning damage
+25 Golden Order Seal --> +183 lightning damage
+10 Frenzied Flame Seal --> +157 lightning damage

I did not have an upgraded Fingerseal, Clawmark Seal or Dragon Communion Seal; Fingerseal should perform about the same as Giant's Seal, but Clawmark and Dragon Communion Seal have worse Faith scaling and will most likely give terrible numbers.

So if you're planning to maximize the lightning damage coming out of this incantation, use the Erdtree Seal. This got my lightning claw build to deal somewhere around ~600 bonus lightning damage per attack with Golden Vow and Lightning Scorpion Charm. Otherwise use something else if you plan to cast offensive incants.

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can we just appreciate how ****ing epic lightning effects look in thisgame

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Does anyone know if this increases poise damage?

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When attacking with a weapon buff active, the buff itself is counted as an additional hit, on too of thr stack you used, meaning winged sword Insignia, cracked tear and prosthesis will activate in half as many hits.

So take your godskin peeler, and initiate encounters using 2HrR2 into R1, if all hits connect, you've just given yourself a massive damage boost in less than two seconds.

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it says the Gravel Stone Seal is the best Seal to use for this Incant because buffs only scale with the FTH portion of scaling, the Gravel Stone Seal caps out at 250 Inc Buff, but Finger Seal caps out with 254, and the Godslayer's Seal caps at 257

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Gigachad spell

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I use this cause it makes my weapon look cooler

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Frozen lighting version of this in DLC?

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Why are these only good on daggers/thrust swords? No wait. Why are these only ok on daggers/thrust swords?

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I miss Carthus Flame Arc.

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So in case anyone wondered, the Canvas Talisman do not seem to strengthen the additional damage of the buff spells. In a way disapointing, but then again if you play a normal caster build you dont rely on these at all probably since your weapon with faith scaling will outperform anyway (given you use any weapon other then seals that is).

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Weapon buffs are kinda weak. But this is the best one.. better on builds that can take advantage of them situationally and that tend to not need the buffs anyway

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Uh no the Erdtree seal is superior? 353 scaling at 80 FTH

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On an unupgraded Finger Seal at base requirements it adds the same damage as Lightning Grease & the buff from Lightning Slash (85). At 99 faith with a maxed out Erdtree Seal, it should add 275 lightning damage. A Lightning Pot at 10/10 str/dex does 297 lightning damage and costs 0fp, without Companion Jar Talisman or Jar Helmet damage boost taken into account (all numbers are rough calculations, I suck at math and could be wrong somewhere).

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Wait last I was on this page gravel stone seal did improve the damage, was this shadow patched or did it just take us this long to realize that?

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Very handy for a knight build. As a vagabond you only need to put 1 point into faith and then have the Two Finger Heirloom to boost your faith from 10 to 15. On top of that you can get 17 faith by using the Haligtree Knight Helm which allows you to use Black Flame Blade. This is very good for very high health targets.

Stay happy Tarnished!

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I cannot use on great stars? Anyone know why

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Is there a formula for calculating the elemental damage applied from enchant incantations that takes faith level and seal bonuses into account? For example, how would I calculate how much lightning damage would be applied by Electrify Armament with a specific faith level and the Gravel Stone Seal +10% to Dragon Cult incants?

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I love early faith builds in this game they’re so good

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Assuming I'm using the Finger Seal, at which point does this incant overtake Lightning Grease in terms of potency?

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Since the lightning infusion via Ashes of War scales off DEX (I believe), do you get more damage out of this if your DEX is higher, or is it strictly based on faith/incant scaling?

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Old lord's talisman is worth it for this alone. The duration is ridiculous, you'll never have to worry about rebuffing in almost any fight

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i still use this instead of black flame blade for my black flame build. Simply because this has 90 second duration compared to 6 second of black flame blade. Ridiculous.

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According to the numbers here and my Incant Scaling (360 with Frenzy Seal), I should be getting a bonus of 270 lightning. Instead I get 147, is there something I'm missing here?

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With the numbers given and my Scaling(350 on Frenzied Seal), the bonus lightning damage I should be getting is 262ish and I only get 144. Is there something I'm missing?

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The ideal usage for this is a situational buff on a hybrid build.

For example, at your basic hybrid [STR32/FTH32] you enchant a heavy weapon with this situationally to get a much higher amount of damage than you normally would by faith scaling a sacred weapon at [STR-req/FTH50+].

Obviously this may be weapon dependent and requires testing on your own end once you find a weapon and damage type you enjoy. As a quick example: I run DEX FTH with a winged scythe and black knife, however, I also run a keen talon sword that I will electrify to utilize the double attack R2's worth of flat lightning damage. The output from this is higher here at 32/32 than it would be at 14/50. Slap square off on there and you now also have poise break.

Hopefully you can see where this is going in terms of creating a strong and versatile hybrid using enchants. Note: Both int and faith have two separate damage pools, cold/sorc versus fire/lightning. While there is no scaling debuff for FTH, lighting is a common universal weakness which evens it out in my opinion.

Another note: You WILL get higher damage from sorc armament at this time. This may change, but for now sorc arm is the darkmoon blade of Elden Ring.

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Gravel Stone Seal doesn't appear to do anything.

Heavy NSS +25, 22 Str, 80 Fai, Gravel Seal +24, Incant Scaling 312

Electify Armament (supposedly boosted by Gravel Seal): AR 578

Order's Blade (not boosted by Gravel Seal): AR 578

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This does NOT get a buff from the gravel stone seal despite it being a dragon cult incantation.

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So as a STR main with only 15 points in Faith using the Clawmark seal is it pointless to use this incantation then? Seems like it only adds a tiny amount of damage that isn't really worth it for the FP cost. Am I wrong here?

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Does Electrify Armament interact with the lightning stat at all? If my weapon has +lightning will it further buff the spell?

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Does this stack with a blood loss weapon like bloodhounds fang?

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what mean "Grants .75x of Incant Scaling" ?

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Only 15 faith requirement, adds a good modifier. I think this is partially slept on. Lightning infusion caps at C scaling in Dex. What weapon do you think would be best to use this on? Something thar roll catches surely. We can still use an ash of war on the weapon.

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There should be a fire enchantment and fire should be a status effect that once built up ignites the enemy for some damage over time similar to black flames.

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So how much longer does this last with old lord Talisman?

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darkmoon blade... where are you?

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works with Old Lord's Talisman

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I love that unlike most if not all of the other weapon enchantment incantations and spells, this seems to be able to be used on any type of weapon, where as most if not all of the others can only be used on blade type weapons.

making this much more versatile. Wish the others were like this also.

Also does anyone know of an incantation that enchants a weapon with fire in the same way? I know theres a incantation that waves flame and then you can swing a weapon at that flame to apply it, but is there and actual fire weapon enchant?

In not, thats a huge oversite and needs to be corrected.

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I have a problem… i was going to buy this incantation but the priest of the round table is gone…. And the big turtle wont give me the incantation because i dont gave him the book…. So i think i Just lost the oportunity to have it

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Okey so lets make this clear for yall:
Lightning incantations including this buff scale of faifh. ONLY ashes of war lightning affinity is dex scaling. How can lightning incantations scale of dex if there are no actual dex seals and on top of it buffs from incantations (seals) increase ONLY from faith. Good luck

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how do i use this? i have a greatsword in my right hand, does nothing. How do i actually use this incantation?

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Does this incantation, and so all the other electric ones, scale with faith or with dex, like the infusions?

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It’s better just to put a lightning affinity on your weapon or sacred.

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I’ve been using this since game launch. Kept it to myself since I wanted something kind of unique. But I can confirm that fists, claws, and twin blades work best. When you two hand them both fists get the buff for the flat damage.

Even better when you use a crossbow like pulley crossbow each bolt gets the flat damage so I 1k+ damage with pulley bow and electric bolts unbuffed. you heard it here first folks

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Need to test a bit more but I think these buff spells really shine with fists weapons, they seem to get the full damage on each hit so the quick 1-2 jab attacks effectively get twice as much of a boost. Claws are good too but they don't get quite as big of an increase.

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From my tests, Electrify Armament causes Virgin Abductor enemies to stagger way faster like, on my Gargoyle Twinblade +23 the first VA in the Volcano Manor area takes ~12 hits+ to stagger, but with Electrify Armament it only takes ~5 hits. But this is the only mob I've found yet that interacts this way. It says that VA has -20% lightning resistance, but I'm not entirely sure how that translates to over twice as much poise damage. I tried it on trolls and giant land squirts so far without seeing any difference at all. Wonder if anyone has any insight into this.

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Just so it’s clear, this incantation is most useful for melee builds that have invested a small amount of faith to be able to cast this. If you’re a pure faith build, fth/dex, or str/fth, an infusion is better.

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I cannot cast this on something with sacred affinity, is that normal?

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Am I missing something with this one? I have to waste time casting and spend FP, but in the end I get lower AR than if I just use Sacred affinity (60 FTH and +10 Erdtree Seal). 75% is way too low if even passive damage from scaling outweighs it.

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Clawmark strength incant scaling has me at 195, but the damage from this is only 34 additional. Clearly the scaling bug is still there in the latest patch.

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FP cost is 27, not 21

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For some reason I gave book to turtle but I don't have option to buy it. Other 2 are there but not this

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This spell would be so much better if there was a blessed type affinity like the one in ds3, adds faith scaling but still lets you use weapon buffs

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This incantation is worthless for a pure faith build, it only gives more damage than sacred affinity if you do a hybrid faith build

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I wonder if they fixed the scaling bug with the new patch.

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Gravel Stone seal does NOT boost this incantation, despite being a Dragon Cult incantation. You will still get the base 75% incant scaling lightning damage.

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The scaling bug applies to all seals and all scaling other than faith. Running an int faith build and getting worse buff with my golden order seal than with my godslayer seal despite the better scaling. It only applies faith scaling.

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Can confirm that the Gravel Stone Seal at almost identical Incant Scaling with the Erdtree Seal provides more damage to my weapons. However, the Faithful's Canvas Talisman DOES NOT boost the damage of the spell.

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The flat incantation scaling from upgrading your seals DO increase the buffable amount, and so does any faith that scaled by the seal. What does not increase the buff damage is hybrid seals which scale incantations with stats other than faith. So, Clawmark's strength scaling and Dragon's Communion Seal's arcane scaling will not add to the buffable amount. This also applies to other armaments such as Bloodflame Blade.

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There really need to be more Faith-scaling weapons that are compatible with this. The only one I know of is that damn dagger that has thoroughly unimpressive damage numbers.

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Can confirm only offensive incantations receive the buffs from talismans, healing, self buffs, and weapon buffs do not gain anything from the passive of specific talismans. Thus Erdtree seal is always the best.

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Its terrible for pure faith builds on a base weapon. You will net more damage just using a holy/flame art affinity

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Str/faith users l: look up trolls hammer, can be buffed with this incantation and at +25 scales acceptable

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Man it kinda sucks to hear that it only really scales with Faith and Faith scaling over the Incant Scaling like with any other buff. I'm really hoping this is just a weird glitch of sorts, because this would be a fantastic buff for other hybrid faith builds like Str/Fth or Fth/Arc if they could just make it scale off of Incant.

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Better than Flame Arts if you got 20 str 20 dex 15 faith and add to that +5 all stats greater rune.
Lightning damage bonus for me is 88/93/98/104 at 15/20/25/30 faith.

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If i could tell you guys any useful tip is: Use Electrify armament + Order's blade + Scholar's armament with a Str enchantable weapon, such as Lordsworn's Greatsword. Even if you have minimum FP you''l be able to cast a lot. Besides the damage buff, it's OP to have almost all kinds of damage to buff your weapon on str build.

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i tried both a sword with ash of war and without but i cant get it to work am i missing anything my faith and everything i need meet the requirement

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so... whats the difference between lightning and holy

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Hi, can I use this with Grafted greatsword. And how much dmg it boosts?

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The damage this does seems to be 0.5 x incant scaling.

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I can confirm that Electrify Armarment does benefit from the Gravel Stone Seal . Tested with Erdtree Seal and GSS both at 140MagAdj and the latter gave a single point of lightning damage more than Erdtree. Obviously escalates at higher upgrade levels.

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Which is better, BLACK, LIGHT or MAGIC infuse?

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how do i use this spell?

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confirm that this spell will scale with Faith AND bonus on seal.

Not sure if the dragon cult talisman bonus work on it, but with same bonus and Faith, using the finger seal give +91 damage and dragon only give +82, so it probably not.

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does this scale with dragon communion talismans or are there dragon cult talismans?

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Does anybody know, which seal, with it's passiv skil, increases the damage of electrify Armament

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Does it seem to scale at all with your faith?

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Does this damage scale with faith ?? If not what's the best buff that does?

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Does anyone know if this stacks with a weapon that has the heavy ash of war: war cry?

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How well does this pair with a bloodloss weapon?

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Just south of the Artist's Shack grace point, there is a knight on the road who will electrocute his sword. Defeat him and he drops the Dragon Cult Prayerbook

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I'm not sure why nobody has mentioned this... So this incantation isn't compatible with weapons that have an ash of war (you can't activate it on your right hand weapon if it has an ash of war, basically). And just through my testing, for my build, vs Vow of Indomitable it only increases your dps by a fraction of a percent. Now, if you actually activate Vow, Vow will net your more damage by a miles. So, in the end, I'm not so sure if this is that great for your main hand if you're wanting to add holy damage to it? Maybe someone has better insight?

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lasts 90 seconds

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Lasts around 90s

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Easy to get, low FP cost, low faith requirement and great damage boost at tip of your hand... go get it!

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lasts 90 seconds

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Lasts around 90s

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Great spell last pretty long too!

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Hi guys, if you're wondering how to get this, there's a golden knight who drops a Dragon Cult prayer book just south of the Artist's Shack grace in Liurnia Lake. It has this spell along with a few other lightning ones once you give it to the priest. It's a bit of a tough fight but good luck!

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Can someone tell where to find it?

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Where can you find or purchase this spell?

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destroyer of dragons

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